Medieval history, the life and death of a civilization / Norman F. Cantor, Distinguished Professor of History, State University of New York at Binghamton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cantor, Norman F.

Contributor:

Huber, Thomaas W.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle Ages.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 584 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps. ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition / with "A Reading Guide to Medieval History" prepared in collaboration with Thomas W. Huber.

Place of Publication:

New York : Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. ; London : Collier Macmillan Publishers, [1969]

Contents:

Prologue The Uses of History

Introduction The Scope of Medieval History

Part One. The Roman Destiny Second to Fifth Centuries. Decline and fall; The Christian Empire and the Christian Church; The making of Latin Christianity

Part Two. The Transformation of European Government and Society Fifth to Eighth Centuries. The age of the barbarian invasions; Justinian and Mohammed; The advance of ecclesiastical leadership

Part Three. The First Europe Eighth and Ninth Centuries. The making of Carolingian kingship; Culture and society in the first Europe

Part Four. The Early Medieval Equilibrium Tenth and Earlier Eleventh Centuries. Ecclesia and Mundus; Byzantium, Islam, and the West

Part Five. The Age of Gregorian Reform Late Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries. On the threshold of the high Middle Ages; The Gregorian world revolution; The Anglo-Norman monarchy and the emergence of the bureaucratic state; The First Crusade and after

Part Six. Learning, Piety, and Power Twelfth Century. The intellectual expansion of Europe; Moslem and Jewish thought: the Aristotelian challenge; Varieties of religious experience; The entrenchment of secular leadership

Part Seven. The Search for a New Equilibirum Earlier and Mid-Thirteenth Century. The peace of Innocent III; The new consensus and its limitations

Part Eight. The Breakdown Later Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries. The failure of the new consensus

Part Nine. An End and a Beginning Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. Between two worlds.

Notes:

"The Second Edition of this highly acclaimed text contains new interpretations, as well as nine new pages of illustrations and an expanded bibliography."--Dust jacket.

Contains prefaces to first and second editions.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1977".

Potok Collection copy has underlines, marginal marks and ms. annotations throughout.

OCLC:

3951